John Montresor

John Montresor (22 April 1736-26 June 1799) was a Captain in the British Army and military engineer and cartographer during the French and Indian War and American Revolutionary War.

Biography
John Montresor was born on 22 April 1736 in Gibraltar, the son of military engineer James Gabriel Montresor. Montresor joined the 48th Regiment of Foot during the French and Indian War, fighting in the Braddock Expedition, in which he was wounded. Montresor drew one of the last known portraits of General James Wolfe before his death at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759 in Quebec, and Montresor became a surveyor on the frontier after the war's end. In late 1775, Montresor became the chief engineer of the British Army in British America during the American Revolutionary War, and he was present at the Battle of Bunker Hill (giving refuge to the dying James Abercrombie in his house), the Battle of Long Island, the New Jersey campaign, and the Battle of Brandywine. Montresor was present at Nathan Hale's execution, and he gave Hale paper and quill to write his last letters to his family, showing him kindness. He left the army in 1779, and in 1785-1786 he went on a tour of Europe. He died in the Maidstone prison on 1799 while jailed for being in debt.